ECSTASY

Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, hug drug

(noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus

(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; “listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture”- Charles Dickens

ecstasy, rapture

(noun) a state of elated bliss

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

Ecstasy (uncountable)

(slang) Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”)

Anagrams

• cytases

Etymology

Noun

ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)

Intense pleasure.

A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.

A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.

(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.

Synonyms

• (the drug): MDMA, molly; (Modern Vernacular) E, eckie, ecky, XTC, X, thizz

Antonyms

• (intense pleasure): agony

Verb

ecstasy (third-person singular simple present ecstasies, present participle ecstasying, simple past and past participle ecstasied)

(intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.

(transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.

Anagrams

• cytases

Source: Wiktionary

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Ec"sta*sy, n.; pl. Ecstasies. Etym: [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr. Ex-, and Stand.] [Also written extasy.]

1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.

2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight. He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy. Milton.

3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

4. (Med.)

Definition: A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

Ec"sta*sy, v. t.

Definition: To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.] The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits. Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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